Chris Ashton

Experienced Full-Stack Developer | Passion for Accessibility & Writing | Founder of Webdapper & GitHooks

Why we set a `Cache-Control: Max-Age` of 1 year

It’s standard practice to set a Cache-Control: max-age=31536000 on assets which are expected not to change, such as images. This header instructs the browser to cache the asset for 31536000 seconds, which is one year. Which raises two questions for me: Why a year? Why not ten years, or six months? Do we actually expect browsers… [Read More]

Chris Ashton
  • Status: Getting stuck into my new role: Developer at Government Digital Service
  • Living in London
  • Been coding 3,852 days
  • Graduated 1467 days ago

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